On the day when the entire Shen family was beheaded, Shen Yaotai survived.
The price of survival is to replace the maid's name and be taken into the house by the enemy Zheng family to serve as the third lady's substitute.
The third young lady is weak and she wards off disasters. If the third young lady dies, she will be buried with him.
In the Zheng family, she is the most docile chess piece - bowing her head, speaking little, and never resisting.
No one knows that underneath this obedient skin, there is a heart of revenge waiting for an opportunity.
No one knew that she could hear dead people talking.
The tablets in the ancestral hall, the remains of the mass graves, the nameless bones in the dry wells of the deep palaces - every dead soul is feeding her secrets.
What the Zheng family owed her, she wanted to get it back one by one.
But someone happened to break into her chess game.
The seventh prince, Lu Huaishuo, married her because he failed in his quest to marry the third lady, so he settled for the next best thing. She once thought he was his salvation and devoted all her efforts to planning for him, but what she got in return was neglect, suspicion, doting on concubines and destroying wives. When he finally knelt in front of her and said, "It was my fault," she only replied: "Your Highness, I really wanted to help you. Now, I don't want to anymore."
Lu Yuanzhi, the king of Huai, was the most dandy in the capital. He wandered around the Fireworks Alley and sang and sang every night. In the court, he found trouble with her in public, but in the courtroom, he hid the most fatal clue in the gift list for her. She thought he was an enemy, but found that he understood her better than anyone else.
From the Zheng family to the East Palace, from a substitute to the emperor's master.
She spent ten years re-engraving the Shen family's name in history.
But when everything settled and the man who had seen through her from the first sight stood beside the throne and asked her "what do you want"——
She suddenly didn't know what she had left.
"My life is my own. How I use it is also my own business."
"Okay. Then count me as the king."
Purpose: Aiming to encourage readers to move forward courageously despite difficulties through the story of a character who goes from being a miserable little person to the pinnacle of power.